CVE-2010-0164

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the imgContainer::InternalAddFrameHelper function in src/imgContainer.cpp in libpr0n in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a multipart/x-mixed-replace animation in which the frames have different bits-per-pixel (bpp) values.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.6

References

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-09.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510535/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38918
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38921
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0692
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-047
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547143
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8703
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-09.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510535/100/0/threaded

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